W. Tabb Moore

1933 - 2025

W. Tabb Moore

July 5, 1933 - June 1, 2025

West Tabb Moore, 91, passed away on June 1, 2025, in Blue Hill, Maine. An accomplished physician in his field of endocrinology, he spent his career in private medical practice in Washington and as a professor at Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins University medical schools.

He was born on July 5, 1933, to Roderick and Virginia Moore, in Richmond, Virginia. Known to friends as Tabb, he graduated from St. Christopher's School, where he was class valedictorian, in 1952.

His first job was as a mold loftsman at the Newport News Shipyard, working on the ocean liner SS United States. He was a mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service and spent two summers working in the lab of Dr. Lewis Bosher at the Medical College of Virginia.

He attended the University of Virginia, graduating in 1955, and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, graduating in 1959.

He entered private practice in Washington, D.C., where he practiced for over thirty years.

From 1976 to 1998, he was on the clinical faculty at Georgetown, where he received several awards for teaching. In 1992, he was appointed the Catherine Winkler Foundation Professor at Georgetown as director of the hospital's metabolic bone clinic in the Division of Endocrinology.

He was appointed to the teaching faculty at Johns Hopkins in the Department of Internal Medicine and the Division of Endocrinology in 1998. Fellows in the division established an award in his name still given annually for best clinical teacher. An endowed lectureship, also in his name, was established at Hopkins by a former patient. He was a Trustee of Johns Hopkins University from 1969-1975 and won the Heritage Award for outstanding service to the university in 2008.

In 2010 he returned to Georgetown as Clinical Professor of Medicine.

He authored or co-authored medical journal articles on various endocrine topics and was co-editor, with Richard Eastman, of Diagnostic Endocrinology.

He belonged to the Endocrine Society, the American Clinical and Climatological Society, and the American Thyroid Association and was a member of the Pithotomy Club at the Johns Hopkins Medical School.

He was an invited lecturer in Thailand, India, and Saudi Arabia and was medical consultant to the National Institutes of Health and the CIA.

He lived in Washington, D.C., and Blue Hill, Maine. He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Rosaline (Nowland) Moore; a son, Jonathan Tabb Moore; daughter, Ann Moore Villano (Tim); four grandchildren, Anna Rosaline Villano, Emily Tan Moore, Alice Caffrey Villano, and Peter West Villano; a sister, Elizabeth Gardner; two nephews, and four great nephews.

A memorial service will be held at a later date.